Hanseatic AI builds the inference stack that runs on satellites and uncrewed aircraft — turning raw sensor feeds into decisions in orbit and in flight, before a single bit touches a ground station.
Modern imaging payloads generate data far faster than any spacecraft can send it home. The constraint is not the camera and not the model. It is a narrow, congested, physically bounded radio link and a handful of ground stations the vehicle can only reach for minutes at a time.
The width of the X-band slice (8,025–8,400 MHz) that most Earth observation satellites still share for downlink. It is already congested.
Typical duration of a single ground station pass in low Earth orbit. Everything not transmitted in that window waits for the next one.
Share of downlink volume that onboard filtering can reclaim by discarding cloud-obscured and low-value frames before transmission.
Hanseatic AI is a software company. We do not sell you a board. We make the models you already care about run inside the power, thermal, and radiation budget of the platform you have already flown.
Quantization, pruning, and distillation tuned against the actual accelerator on the bus — not a datacenter proxy. We target the operating point where accuracy loss stops mattering to the analyst and power savings start mattering to the spacecraft.
Cloud screening, change detection, and object classification run at capture time. Frames with nothing in them never enter the downlink queue. What reaches the ground is a detection with a chip attached, not a terabyte of ocean.
Single-event upsets are not an edge case in orbit; they are the weather. Our runtime assumes bit flips, watchdog resets, and thermal throttling, and is built to degrade into a known-good state rather than a silent wrong answer.
The Hanseatic League ran its trade through kontore — fortified outposts far from home, granted the authority to decide for themselves because a message to Lübeck took months. Our runtime carries the name for the same reason.
Tasking rules, confidence thresholds, downlink priority. Reconfigurable on orbit without a firmware push.
Detection, segmentation, change detection, and screening models compiled per target. Bring your own weights or start from ours.
Scheduling, memory management, fault tolerance, and power governance. The layer that makes an untrusted accelerator behave like a flight component.
One model artifact, many targets. Retargeting a payload does not mean rewriting a mission.
Space-grade FPGAs, VPUs, shielded COTS modules, embedded GPUs on airframes. We meet the hardware you selected.
The difference between an answer in ninety minutes and an answer in ninety seconds is not efficiency. It is whether the information was worth collecting.
A large fraction of every optical constellation's downlink budget is spent transmitting cloud cover. Screening at capture reclaims that capacity for imagery somebody will actually look at — and raises effective revisit without launching another satellite.
Dark vessel detection is a needle-in-haystack problem where the haystack costs bandwidth to move. Detecting onboard and downlinking contact reports turns a storage problem into a tracking problem.
An uncrewed aircraft in contested spectrum cannot assume a link to a ground processor. Onboard inference lets the platform classify, prioritize, and act during the periods when it is on its own — which are the periods that matter.
Wildfire ignition, flood extent, and structural damage lose value by the hour. Detecting the signature onboard means the alert goes out on the pass that saw it, not the pass after the analyst got to it.
The Hanseatic League was a network without a capital. For three centuries it moved goods across the North and Baltic Seas through independent ports that shared standards, charts, and law — but made their own decisions, because waiting for central authority meant losing the season.
That is the architecture we think orbital and airborne autonomy is converging on. Not one intelligence pipeline on the ground that every vehicle queues for, but a fleet of capable nodes running common standards and deciding locally. The bandwidth is not coming. The compute already went up there.
We are early, and we would rather say so plainly than pad a website. The runtime is in structured testing. We are looking for integration partners with a payload, a bandwidth problem, and the patience to prove something properly.
If you operate a constellation, build uncrewed platforms, or integrate ISR systems, we want to hear the specifics of your bottleneck — sensor, target hardware, and the decision you wish you could make onboard.